The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-19
GEORGIA.


GEORGIA.
Wright Tumberlin. of Wilcox county
steps to the front with mammoth squasl
measuring 8 feet and "a inches in length
and s feet and 61S inches in circumference
1t was raised from seed sent out by the
Agricultural Bureau at Washington.
A. T. Logan, of Spring Place, promised
his two little girls last week if they would
pick peas enough to defray their expenses
he would take them TO the Piedmont Fair.
So in the hope of their reward the little girls
picked twelve bushels and half of peas III
one week.
In Burke county on Tuesday morning a
colored woman from the Wyatt place,
named Nellie Warren, was riding on top of
a wagon loaded with cotton. The mules
got frightened, and in attempting to run
away, struck wheel against a tree The
woman, falling off, was run over by the
loaded wagon and killed.
A sample of coal from the Brown mine,
near Fort Gaines, was submitted by Hon.
w. ]. Green to chemical analysis by corps
of skillful chemists in Atlanta, and they
unanimously pronounced it the finest
sample they had ever seen in Clay county,
being none other than the genuine and
world-famous camel coal
Photographer jackson, of Brunswick,
tells a good one on a well-known young
man. Some time ago the young man had
his picture taken, handsomely framed and
sent it to young lady friend as a souvenir
gift. The next day he received a note from
the lady, in which she thanked him for the
picture, but begged to return the frame, as
she made it a rule never to accept anything
valuable from gentleman.
A petition of more than forty names on it
was presented TO the Ordinary of Stewart
county last Wednesday, praying him to
order an election on the sale of whisky in
that county. The petition was considered,
granted filed in Office and the order for
the election handed in for publication in the
Independent. But for reasons best known
to those who presented it, the petition has
been withdrawn and held for future action.
At Villa RIGA Sunday Bud Aderhold
(colored) was caught while in the act of tax
ing money out of a money drawer The
clerk caught him and took So from him
The merchant had him arrested and locked
up, and his preliminary trial was postponed
till 3 o'clock. The merchant failed to appear
against him and he was released; and there
is a rumor on the streets that a prominent
farmer paid the merchant $3S to let the ne
gro off.
At Columbus Policeman McMichael cap
tured burglar, Alexander johnson (col-
ored), in Matte Carriers house on Sunday
entrance to the house through the window.
The cold draught from the open window
aroused the occupants from sleep, and see
ing the negro under the bed, she began
screaming for the police. The burglar
threw open the door, and ran into the hands
of Policeman McMichael, who arrested and
landed him in the lookup.
At Forsyth Saturday evening about 5
o'clock Henry Merrick, a negro porter at
40 do a,,lN l..
little S-year-old daughter of j. G. Ellison.
the proprietor of the hotel. The fact did
not become known until Sunday, and the
negro remained at large during the night
He was arrested at the depot Sunday morn
ing by Sheriff King and lodged in Jail, and
Will have his commitment trial this week
This is the second affair of the kind within
the last five months, and the people are
worked to a fever heat over it,
Mrs NJ M. Trabert died at Atlanta Sum
day at the residence of her grandsons, A.
L. and f. G. Kontz, on Marietta street.
She was born in the town of Ostheim,
Saxony, in 1899. This was the home OF
Martin Luther She saw Napoleon's army
as it marched through Saxony in 1911. She
came TO Atlanta in 1850 and has lived there
until the day of her death She remained
in Atlanta through all the siege by Gen.
Sherman. Several shells were shot through
sistent member of the Lutheran church for
seventy-four years.
AS an indication of the big business the
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin road is
doing we will state that last Thursday
morning, as the train from the western end
started to Americas it was filled with
freight and passengers. AT Lumpkin all
the empty cars that could be obtained were
added, and when the train pulled into this
faff LOFT l,ol
every car with freight and cotton, and at
last had to clear the express car and load it
with cotton bales. The train was a queer
sight when it reached Americas, but il
brought in big load.
At Macon Saturday S. CAN'T and George
Jones appeared before the Recorder to
answer TO the charge of cheating and
swindling. This is the case where young
countryman reported to Officer Brooks that
he had been mulcted of the sum of So for a
shave, hair cut and shampoo at the Brown
House barber shop. He failed to appear
Saturday, and the case was continued
CAN'T says the countryman had his hair and
eyebrows dyed, the old price for which
would be $40. He did not charge but SIS for
the work, which is less, he says, than would
have been charged elsewhere.
w. Fl. Daniel, well-known citizen of
Wilkinson county, who lives near the
Oconee river, is now "a years old, has nine
teen full-fedged boys and four daughters
He says he never had a fever in his life.
never took dose of medicine and never
had the backache, and can do more hard
work than any man in the district He gets
up at O'Clock in the morning, never fails
to put in ten hours of good, lively work
every day, eats three good, square meals
day, and does not drink coffee, tea or any
thing stimulating. He relies upon the laws
of nature for good health, and he expects to
live to be 100 years old.
Probably never before in any part of the
country where game so little abounds has
there been a shot fired with the same effect
under similar circumstances, as the one
which Andy Dixon, of Glascock county
made few days ago. Dixon killed four
squirrels at one shot and wounded a fifth
The squirrels were out on the limbs of a tree
and not in a nest or hollow. A negro named
Warren Davis, day or two ago killed four
squirrels at one shot, Three Of them were
young ones, and they were trying to take
hickory nut from the mouth of an old
''frisky tail. In these days when a hunter
kills even one squirrel at shot it is counted
good many.
LaGrange was excited Sunday morning
over three daring burglaries Saturday night
At the home of DIR. L. ID. Pitman where